Wednesday, May 29, 2019

This Treacherous Journey (Heart Of The Mountain #1) Misty M. Beller - 5 Stars



I really liked this book.  It had much action and romance, and a bit of mystery.  It was well written.  It was spiritual. It’s based in the old west with Indians and men who are men.  It was a fairly quick read and I wanted to keep reading to find out what was going to happen on the next page.  I can’t say that about every book I read but a lot of the books I’ve been getting lately have been excellent in different ways.  It’s refreshing to have a stack of books to read that are all so different and all so excellent. 

I received this book from the author and BookFunnel.  The hope is always that I’ll write a review for the book to help the author and publisher which of course I am as you see it above.  I got the book in the MOBI format so I could read it on my paperwhite kindle.  Thank you #MistyMBeller #ThisTreacherousJourney #BookFunnel the next book in this series has just come out on Amazon for anyone who wants to continue to read the stories from MistyMBeller.

I found the description for this book on Good Reads:
Widowed and with child, Emma Malcom is fleeing from the reward offered for her arrest. She’s innocent of the dirty dealings her deceased husband orchestrated, but the angry townspeople didn’t stop to listen to her defense before she narrowly escaped with her life. Now, she and her twin brother, Joseph, must battle the mountain wilderness of the Rockies to reach Canada and the clean start she craves. But when a fall from the rocky cliff leaves Joseph wounded and weak, could the strange mountain man they encounter be God’s gift to see them to safety?

Simeon Grant makes bad choices. His deceased wife and twin babies are lost to him now because of his reckless decisions, and the penance he pays by living alone in this mountain wilderness is only a small piece of what he thinks he deserves. When a city woman, heavy with child, appears on his doorstep with her injured brother, her presence resurrects the memories he’s worked so hard to forget. And when she asks for his help to travel deeper into the mountain country, he can’t help wonder why God would force him to relive the same mistakes he’s already suffered through. Or maybe taking these two to safety could be the way to redeem himself.

But when their travels prove more treacherous than he imagined, Simeon finds himself pressing the limits of his ability to keep Emma and her brother safe. Can he overcome the past that haunts him to be the man she needs? Will Emma break through the walls around Simeon’s heart before it’s too late, or will the dangers of these mountains be the end of them all?